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Tonight we were watching Pillars of the Earth on Starz (recorded but only about 20 minutes behind real time). For the FIRST time in a long time, there were NO audio drop outs at all while watching. We have had dropouts on virtually every channel. Now this is on a HR24-500, but I thought I would report what we observed. I have no idea what problems are relative to the HR24 or the other DVRs... we have three others which are not HR24s. Two are hooked directly to TVs and have no problems. The other one is using a very old Pioneer AVR but it also has little or no audio dropout problems.

We hope D* gets this problem resolved, but tonight was a nice break in the 3 to 5 minute occurrences of very brief audio drops. I would be interested if anybody else saw some improvement tonight.

Tonight we were watching Pillars of the Earth on Starz (recorded but only about 20 minutes behind real time). For the FIRST time in a long time, there were NO audio drop outs at all while watching. We have had dropouts on virtually every channel. Now this is on a HR24-500, but I thought I would report what we observed. I have no idea what problems are relative to the HR24 or the other DVRs... we have three others which are not HR24s. Two are hooked directly to TVs and have no problems. The other one is using a very old Pioneer AVR but it also has little or no audio dropout problems.

We hope D* gets this problem resolved, but tonight was a nice break in the 3 to 5 minute occurrences of very brief audio drops. I would be interested if anybody else saw some improvement tonight.

I hope it continues for you! As for us, we still had the usual 3 to 4 audio dropouts per hour while watching (live) USA and HGTV for most of the evening.

Last week's showing of Penn & Teller's Bull**** had four audio drops, at exactly the same spot, on both the east and west coast feeds. This weeks show, no dropouts the entire show on both east and west feeds shows.

Stuart,As a complainer, all I really want to know is that DirecTV views this as a legitimate problem and someone is working to correct it. I believe that the delivery of DD5.1 via MPEG4 is the issue. Granted it looks to be an encoding problem, but the end result is that my enjoyment of this enhanced audio is degraded due to this problem. I am obviously not alone.

I would like to say that DirecTV has done a very good job of delivering their HD video via MPEG4 and MRV. I am truly amazed some times at the quality of the picture. If they can handle the video, certainly they should be able to clean up the audio.

Thanks!

DIRECTV views this as a legitimate problem and someone is working to correct it.

Is it completely on the encoder end, or completely at the receiver end, or is it some of both? I'm not qualified to answer that question. But I can tell you this... everyone agrees it's an issue and everyone wants it resolved. Not just us, but the DIRECTV people too.

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Pretty much any channel in HD that DD 5.1 is enabled. When I switch my Onkyo Receiver to stereo is stops. I called D* for the third time in 6 month's about this issue, because I am sick of it. The rep told me they have not heard of this issue and then he checked my call history and saw the previous calls.

I was in Ames Iowa over the past weekend, and had the same audio drop out there with Medicom TV service.
I think is is something with the transmission, and not from any DTv equipment.
I have 2 HR24-500s and 1 HR21-100.

I was in Ames Iowa over the past weekend, and had the same audio drop out there with Medicom TV service.I think is is something with the transmission, and not from any DTv equipment.I have 2 HR24-500s and 1 HR21-100.

DIRECTV views this as a legitimate problem and someone is working to correct it.

Is it completely on the encoder end, or completely at the receiver end, or is it some of both? I'm not qualified to answer that question. But I can tell you this... everyone agrees it's an issue and everyone wants it resolved. Not just us, but the DIRECTV people too.

Oh thank goodness. I an so tired of missing dialog in basically everything we watch. No discernible pattern to channel/dropouts/time.

Pioneer VSX-1014TXHR20-100 via TOSLINK

Pretty much any channel in HD that DD 5.1 is enabled. When I switch my Onkyo Receiver to stereo is stops.....I am sick of it.

I guess I watch different HD channels than most. While I do have these and posted about them on last Thursday's recording off USA, I haven't really noticed any on what I've been watching since.
I'm not trying to diminish the problem, just to suggest maybe not all the HD channels are doing this all the time.